What is this houseplant with long stems, v-shaped leaves and no flowers?
January 9, 2016 8:46 PM

I have done several Google searches and checked many lists of common houseplants. I can't figure out what this is.
posted by perryfugue to Home & Garden (7 answers total)
A baby/young Areca palm
posted by Orca at 8:52 PM on January 9, 2016


Or a bamboo of some type? It looks grassy to me.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 9:15 PM on January 9, 2016


It looks like a very unhappy peace lily.
posted by HeyAllie at 9:33 PM on January 9, 2016


If that's not an Areca palm I'll eat my hat. The young leaves have a very distinctive way of forking.
posted by pipeski at 1:26 AM on January 10, 2016


I think it's a Chamaedorea stolonifera, due to the bifid leaves.
posted by Solomon at 2:04 AM on January 10, 2016


It looks like a very unhappy peace lily.

Yeah, that's along the lines of my first impression...A very spindly, and definitely uncared-for, lily of some sort.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:16 AM on January 10, 2016


Looks like a palm to me. Not a peace lily, the leaves on those have a central rib and veins that branch off from that. This plant has veins that are all parallel, so it's not a peace lily or any other aroid. Googling "areca seedling" gets pictures that look like a decent match.
posted by conic at 9:44 AM on January 10, 2016


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